troubling aspect of ai rollout in the wider economy is how haphazardly rushed it was by leaders with no concept of timing or practicality, so now people are convinced it's useless just in time for it to get really good and will be blindsided by businesses that took a slower more considerate approach
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
Woke and weaponized is how we need to be when we march these perfidious hacks into the ocean 😩
yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard?
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“It is not a crime to be in crisis.”
But your department has hamstrung the CARE team, which could respond to incidents before they intensify. Cops and their supporters want to complain about the city but are completely unwilling to do anything effective to prevent these tragedies.
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This reminds me how much I pissed off my middle school teacher by implementing a quadratic formula program on my TI-83. I would spend all class programming and 10 minutes on the worksheet 😅
I do think it's useful for building intuition about how things relate to each other and knowing that certain problems CAN be solved before reaching for a calculator. I don't think school must exactly resemble the real world experience of most people.
Look, if this country ever gets through this, MAGA memorabilia needs to be treated like Nazi memorabilia. Trump's signature should be akin to scarlet letter. Having a MAGA hat in your house should be like having Klan robes or family photos taken at a lynching.
A strip from Something Positive including Mike and his son (forgot the name, sorry, uncle Randy). The drawings is mainly of Mike packing up books, the main point here is the dialogue, which is as follows: Panel 1: Son: Orson Scott Card? JK Rowling? These are your favourite books, dad! Panel 2: Mike: They're pretty hateful towards gay and trans people and actively work to make their lives worse. I don't wanna support them anymore. Panel 3: Son: Can't you just separate the work from the author. Mike: Some people probably can and I sure tried. Son: What changed? Panel 4: Mike: I realised "separate the work from the author" is easy for me to say when I'm not one of the people they dehumanize.
Is this a good time to once again repost this Something Positive strip that Dear Uncle Randy made a few years back?
Answer: Unfortunately, it is. It shouldn't have to be, but it is.
It really seemed like Stuxnet did for a while. Alas 😩
THE SEATTLE MOTHERFUCKING TORRENT!!!!!!!!! TIME TO THROW SOME TEA IN THE FUCKING SOUND!!!!!!
literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back
This is how we rejoin the good timeline. Awful, I know. Welcome to Omelas.
How am I dealing with current events? *sad statue by System of a Down plays in the background*
Hey so maybe it’s me but bombing the fuck out of a bunch of little girls does not make you a good person and supporting anyone who would do that as such makes you also not a good person
Where is the "FUCK NO" option when the tax software asks me to sign up for a "Trump Account"? I am more than okay making irrational financial decisions to wage a mini protest here and look forward to the confederate statue treatment when the time comes.
THE USA PLAYED IT LIKE A GOLD MEDALIST 🥇
Congratulations to the 16 PWHL players who will be bringing home the gold with Team USA!
if they didn't want that to happen they should commit fewer obvious crimes against the state and humanity, in my opinion
Top Panel: George W. Bush NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND Bottom Panel: Kristi Noem NO BLANKY LEFT BEHIND
Ending this operation is not enough.
We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.
My bucket list is:
* More worker ownership and self-determination through co-ops
* Public compute infrastructure
* Decouple benefits from employment
* Disaggregate education
* Progressive taxation (disincentivize consolidation)
* Enforce transparency
I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race
AI doesn't need to 100% automate any individual or group. AI that works "well enough" (subjective) at narrow tasks will still cause reorientation of the economy. Some believe we just need to wait out the clock and this will all resolve itself. I am not sure of that. More than resistance is needed.
“Public outrage at the imprisonment of this small child is why we must deport his whole family” is *literally* what’s happening here. We need a stronger word than “monsters.”
“I was ahead and then I was magically behind” cool man, sounds like you lost
It is my kid's "favorite commercial" 😅
she can also box tbh. blocking hand up, punching hand square and level. dude is lucky her people got him away from that overhand right
There is no such thing as other people’s children.